I meant from a consumer usage and uptake perspective. I was lucky to use Win 2000 as a consumer as my dad was a SWE who got free licenses from work (along with Compaq workstations, ergonomic chairs, and tickets to ATT Park), but apparently Win2000 for consumer usage was much less common than I thought.
That is not why you are seeing a deluge in listings. It takes 1-2 years to make a company IPO ready and is a massive operational headache, and the controls needed take multiple quarters to implement.
The reason you are seeing a boom in IPOs versus 2023-25 is because a large portion of funds that are from the 2016-20 vintage are about to hit the 10 year mark when LPs need to be made whole.
This means you need to exit your investments either with an additional round, an acquisition, or (the most common approach for growth equity which is what series D and later rounds are) IPO.
> Hahah explain why data bricks and stripe are still private
The founders of Databricks and Stripe explicitly structured the terms of their later rounds such that they could remain private indefinetly if needed in return for operational control. Basically the "Rich versus Kings" [0] dichotomy
> Didn’t you say you wanted (sic) tour account deleted? Yet here you are
CCPA requires proof of identity for an account to be deleted, which I do not want to provide due to my professional network's overlap with YC. I'm waiting for HN's mod team to eventually ban my account and subsequently delete my comments like they did for a few others.
> Mate you’re full of it
If you're going to act hostile why don't you use your primary account instead of a throwaway?
> I've never been able to figure out what's so great about Atherton
It's 90s/2000s tech and finance leadership money - excluded from Woodside and Portola Valley so Atherton was the next best thing back then.
Not being around Asians played a huge role as well - in the 1990s and 2000s, Saratoga, Cupertino, the Fremont Hills, and the parts of Palo that fell under Gunn High became "Asian" and we were viewed negatively by Silicon Valley types back then. I remember the white flight first hand [0]
Cathy Gatley, co-president of Monta Vista High School's parent-teacher association, recently dissuaded a family with a young child from moving to Cupertino because there are so few young white kids left in the public schools. "This may not sound good," she confides, "but their child may be the only Caucasian kid in the class." (2005)
Their kinds still populate HN.
> Woodside is a nice horse community with hills and sequoias
Older money (1950s-1990s)
> Palo Alto is next to Stanford
Palo Alto was much more "middle class" (think like Fremont or Dublin is today) back then
> Where do the fundraising events for House, Senate, and the State House happen
Atherton is wealthy. But it’s surrounded by the Bay Area. Atherton is uniquely civically engaged, but that’s about it. Palo Alto, Los Gatos, Cupertino and San Francisco can each muster more capital than it can, to say nothing of LA.
They absolutely can in aggregate, but all those towns you listed only became "rich" in the last 10-15 years, and their wealthy members tend to be extremely disassociated with the local political scene from personal experience giving advice to my peers.
Atherton, along with Hillsborough, Ladera, Potola Valley, and Woodside represent old and oldish money who were much more engaged and locally entrenched.
These are peers of Draper, Ellison, Conway, Steyer, Newsom, Getty, Schiff, Pelosi, Sobrato, Panetta, and Siebel and are an entirely different social and political strata.
There is a money as well as a racial component, which is ironic as a significant portion of the community were Italian, German, and Irish Catholics who were excluded by descendants of the Hearsts and Stanfords barely 70 years ago.
Edit: I completely agree with you. The issue is organizational though - California local and state government is structured in such a way that local priorities can override collective goals, and this goes well beyond weaponized environmental reviews or NIMBYism.
And containers were initially and primarily about convenience not security. They were a way to quickly launch a preconfigured environment to respond to demand or to eliminate the need to manualy configure dev and test environments and avoid the "works on my machine" phenomenon.
People will more often than not, take the path of least resistance. Even if you tell them it's dangerous they will not care. People run this stuff on their primary workstation, unconfined, with permissions disabled because they don't want be bothered with accepting permission requests. This is all well and good until it decides to drop your production database or delete your home directory. Most of them don't even learn their lesson after that even.
Because it effectively makes no difference to my security posture. My user account also has sudo access (it requests TouchID but I also wouldn't die on the hill if someone said they have no password sudo access), and realistically everything of value on this machine exists in my home directory. Being able to escalate to root really doesn't give an attacker very much that they don't already have if they've got access to my user account.
Maybe you don’t do anything with your computer but for me the difference between my sudo+password/fingerprint and sudoless access to my linux user is huge.
For one thing, 1Password unlocks with system authentication unless it’s been inactive for a certain amount of time or if the system has been restarted.
Without sudo you can’t modify my firewall rules, can’t modify my kernel, boot partition, install/run privileged software, and the list goes on and on.
Sure, having my local account compromised would be really bad, but security is done in layers. I’m not going to give my local user permanent root access via docker just because I didn’t feel like typing “sudo.” That’s not enough of a benefit to leave that door wide open.
Think about it this way: there could be an exploit where you could run something as my user without knowing my password. Maybe some program my user is running has an exploit, let’s say yet another npm package gets compromised and I unwittingly run it. If you can now run anything in docker as root with that blast radius just got way worse.
Becuase a lot of devs don't know this stuff. There's a reason security engineers (as in SWEs who specialize in securing specific attack surfaces) remain in hot demand.
Security engineer here :) Just a little side note, docker is also very often useful for evading EDR/XDR/etc. Want to talk to a domain controller with something like impacket but your EDR kills it? Try a container.
Yes, but most people (especially a large portion on HN and Reddit) do not internalize it.
A SWE who has always worked in DevTooling companies will always be preferred by DevTooling companies over a generalist. A SWE who has always worked in AdTech will always be preferred by AdTech companies over a generalist. etc etc.
Software fundamentals - though useful - are table stakes skills at this point. No business wants to deal with the headache of on-ramping employees who have never worked in a specific domain or industry because it takes too long for a generalist employee to build the intuition needed to understand that segment of the industry.
> Software fundamentals - though useful - are table stakes skills at this point.
I'm having a difficult time even seeing what we're talking about here. I see "seniors" in our industry that don't know what I would call the fundamentals of programming or software development; apparently not all fundamentals are created equal.
> No business wants to deal with the headache of on-ramping employees who have never worked in a specific domain or industry…
The usual sickness. If you don’t train people to become specialists and just expect them to fall from the sky, it’s only a question of time until you run out of specialists.
The tech industry is significantly larger now than it was a decade ago. Large self-sufficient talent pools of SWEs, Designers, PMs, PMMs, and SEs/AEs exist for most subsegments of tech now.
Additionally, limiting early career hiring to to T10/20 CE/CS/ECE/EECS programs (they tend to graduate around 10K students a year), veterans (they tend to have the "can-do" and fast learning mindset needed), and a couple regional schools is more than enough to build a self-sustaining early career pipeline for just about any segment of tech indefinitely.
And therefore there will be a huge knowledge gap as companies refuse to hire anyone who hasn't worked in the field for 5+ years and people who want to work in that field but haven't don't get hired.
Not really. Most people continue to remain in a specific domain from their internship days, and professional networks develop.
Historically, startups were the traditional path for a generalist to build domain expertise because most startups couldn't be picky with talent, but the market has changed.
In all honesty, too much fat did develop in the tech industry over the last 6 years. Traditional hiring pipelines (eg. Limiting early career recruiting to grads from top 10-20 CS/ECE/EECS programs nationally along with Vets and some grads from decent regional programs) still net good calibre talent worth their weight in gold, but others just aren't working out.
I'm afraid you appear to be contradicting yourself by saying internship in one comment and stating that companies don't bother with onboarding employees with no knowledge in a previous comment.
An internship is fine for onboarding becuase you aren't paying a FT employee level salary or benefits, and expectations are your hire is still learning but has some aptitude or interest in becoming a domain expert.
On the other hand, hiring a mid-career SWE who spent much of their career in one domain who is transitioning to another is a significant risk without additional social proof such as referrals where someone actually vouches for their skills.
A lot of people forget that Canon and Nikon were the original leaders in the lithography space, and as a result the US DoE and CFTC decided to back ASML and Tokyo Electron back in the late 1990s and early 2000s to work on what became EUV Lithography.
It's a major reason why I find chest-thumping about ASML and sOveReigNity to be tiresome - ASML is tied to both the US and Netherlands (not the rest of the EU - NL is deeply protective of their IP) by the hip, and various portions of its IP are partially firewalled across American and Taiwanese JVs.
It's the same with Zeiss as well if you've ever visited their R&D labs in the Bay.
> As a result of the Takaichi administration directing subsidies exclusively toward gasoline, oil companies have stopped prioritizing naphtha production
Not exactly. Japan only produces around 40% of it's naphtha domestically, with 40% from the Middle East and the other 20% from other sources. Much of the pain arose from supply shock for the 40% sources from the ME.
That said, much of the pain around naphata is transitional, as most Japanese imports of naphtha have now shifted away from the Middle East to Algeria, the US, and India [0][1].
Mind you, this is eating significantly into margins, but it is survivable as this isn't Japan's first black swan event of similar calibre - the late 2000s and early 2010s oil price shock occurred during a much more difficult macro environment for Japan, and at least according to ONG analysts [2] (behind login, as most actionable commodities news is) Japan has the reserves needed for around a year of production assuming Japan didn't begin shifting sourcing, which it did.
I'd recommend reading Overseas Energy Investment of Korea and Japan: How did Two East Asian Resources-Rare Industrial Giants Respond to Energy Security Challenges by Oh Seong-ik [3] to learn more about the Korean and Japanese energy security policy - both are using the same methodology, strategies, and contract structures, and despite public rhetoric, a large portion of younger Koreans targeting the Blue House and/or high finance still try to attend Waseda for their undergrad if SKY, KAIST, or Ewha doesn't work out.
The situation may stabilize over time as Japan gradually manages to shift sources.
However, the situation has been and is serious, the Calbee issue isn't really what matters of course. As someone who's currently in the process of building a new house, I'm in constant touch with my construction company, and they tell me that there are tons of procurement problems because of the naphta shortage. Some companies have stopped taking orders altogether. We're lucky in that our construction company managed to secure what we need just in time, those just a couple of weeks after us have problems. We are mostly fine, except for some stuff, which, while important, can be handled. Or delayed, at least.
IMO, Vista crawled so Win7 could run. Same with Win 2000 and WinXP.
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